anime

it is so good

She is a bottom tier vtuber because of that one song

I am also not the biggest fan of the suicide squad ED by her

its not the worst ed this season

but it is not the best

I can't think of any OPs or EDs that stand out to me as good yet

I like the deer OP

I like the beginning of it

I like the Yoasobi monogatari ED

It becomes generic near the middle

I agree with that take gent

I still like it, but the beginning part is the strongest

uh, I like the nier OP but I like Lisa

OH

Polu

russian ED

that one gets the takagi bump

I guess Nier OP, 2.5 dimension OP, and Russian OP and ED are good

This season has no S tier songs

yeah

the pain of no monogatari OP

I know

if monogatari OPs were a thing this season, they'd all be good

Monogatari doing a unique OP for each arc, sung by the character of that arc, is one of my favourite things the show did

I am only misising one show still, maybe last crusade S2 has a banger OP/ED

You should check out this called In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki, it features a different group of girls singing and ED for every episode when half the episode was about them. It all culminates into a grand ED where every group gets together to sing a grand song about the village.

Thats very cool, but different EDs is more common than different OPs. I will for sure check it out though!

even koyomimonogatari reused OPs and reanimated at least the nadeko one

I never noticed they reanimated the nadeko one

what did they change

removed her hat apparently

lmfao

Oh yeah, they totally did

My favourite part of this OP is they did the backwards version (visually) for her other arc and I like that song just as much

maybe one of these standalone stories is long enough to warrant two episodes and they make at least one OP

https://vxtwitter.com/nobeta_staff_en/status/1810250607435096422 lmao

X

Fixed

have they made her a VTuber yet?

that feels like a logical step

the studio said they completely finished production of that show all the way back in mid-july

which is an interesting note

Yeah they post official loli porn sometimes

for regi's image

I feel like I've seen multiple, notable artists get commissioned for official art too

its dark souls

what do you expect

for BA anime, i wrote down a... review? write-up? of the adaptation, which is my first time doing something like that, because i really do like BA. It's not really a review as much as it is me writing down the differences between the anime and game, with a couple critiques. I intended to post it here but idk if you guys (pika and polu) care, and i also thought i should wait for you to finish the show. its also way longer than i thought it would be when i started writing it.

dw, Regi and I; the only other two resident BA players here, will tell you your favorite girl is shit

I'm interested in reading it. You seem like you aren't 100% against the adaptation which is what I like when talking to people who have seen the source. I plan on watching episode 12 today.

my favorite girl is hina fyi

When I get a chance to catch up I'll read you review

My opinion of the show for the 60% I've seen is that its alright, but nothing really compels me to want to watch the next episode

which is how I fell behind so far

6/10 overall, my typical score for shows I enjoyed but with an * after the word enjoy

Hina ok

I like the rule breaker 86 or whatever their group is called leader

she's my favourite

Aru is a fun character

ok here's my review-ish thing for BA anime. spoiler tagging based on pika's current MAL progress lol --BA Anime Overall review and notes-- As someone who really loves the BA story, i decided to rate this show based on how it did as an adaptation. For this reason i gave it an 8/10 on MAL, but if i was a stranger to BA and rated the show on its own, it would have been a lower score. What I wrote here are some critiques and praises based on that premise. Important introductory prologue scenes skipped(rip wakamo's and rin's intro). It's weird that the abydos girls had to explain basic information about the city to sensei, instead of Rin from the GSC doing it when sensei first starts working under the GSC. Fight scenes not really animated well other than a couple exceptions. nobody ever actually hit the main girls with any shots. Kivotos students are very durable, they regularly get shot in the game and shrug it off. why did the show avoid having them get hit at all? only iori from the prefect team landed hits but only in melee and her strikes were somewhat blocked. Sensei being in the anime is good, but with the fights being the way they are, and with the lack of game mechanics, his participation is sidelined. Volume 1 chapters 1 and 2 are not the most interesting part of BA story by a long shot, the anime was never going to fix that, but there's a lot of good about it like expanded scenes and the original episode 8 scenes which were quite nice and enjoyable to see. my biggest issues are the battle animation, the prologue skip, and The OST. Which had a couple nice tracks but overall falls short of the game

--individual episode notes-- 1-7: pretty simple mostly accurate adaptation of game story (vol 1 chapter 1, beginning of chapter 2). i'm not going to rewatch them to refresh myself for this write-up, but i remember most of it, and how i felt watching them. They were mediocre, but so was Volume 1 chapter 1 of the game story. some expanded scenes and a couple unimportant scenes left out(an extra skirmish with the helmet gang for example). strange but unimportant changes like the method serika was kidnapped with(smoke and knockout gas instead of shooting her with anti-aircraft guns). probably because they didnt want to show the main girls getting shot for some reason. The bank robbery was and still is the best part of chapter 1. Fight with iori and the prefect team was decently animated for iori's initial attacks, and pretty close to how it went in the game. Hina's thighs buffed.

• ep8: aquarium scenes were anime original and good, wished the aquarium scenes were in the game story unironically. Good character moments that lead well into the next episode. Yuuka's thighs got nerfed, and Noa was shown earlier here than she was in game. The scenes after the aquarium were in the game
• ep9: anime had no skrimish with Kaiser PMC before interest was increased unlike the game. Kaiser PMC director claimed to be Kaiser CEO when he isn't, which may have been a subtitling issue, idk because i don't understand japanese. addition of flashbacks of Yume. (see extra notes)
• ep10: the pmc director piloted the mech unlike the game, and it was very stupid(why is he punching with cannons?). Problem solver entrance was good. Mutsuki had a weird web grenade she doesnt have in the game, but it fits her character to have something silly like that. other than that, some useless dialogue that didnt exist before, that kind of drags out the PMC invasion.

• ep11: Black suit got a good VA. Sensei did not pull out the meta credit card in the anime during the black suit scene. Sensei and the abydos girls personally visiting trinity to ask hifumi for help is a nice addition. in the game, hifumi just asks the tea party for a favor without being prompted(at least not on screen). we also catch glimpses of Koharu, Azusa, and Hanako which is a nice addition though i doubt we'll get an adaptation of Volume 3 anytime soon, if ever. Nagisa tells hifumi she needs time to think about helping abydos, but in the game she immediately gives hifumi access to the Tea Parties artillery, hoping to get sensei to be in her debt. The abydos girls meeting with Ako and chinatsu of the prefect team when asking for help is a nice addition, only sensei showed up to gehenna to ask for help in game. I can't believe Sensei stuck iori's toes in his mouth, the madman.
• ep12: Actually good battle animation in this episode, which is nice. this is the most important fight of volume 1 ch1&2 after all. We get to see a lot of the reinforcments from Trinity and Gehenna actually doing stuff on-screen instead of off-screen like in the game, where they showed up and their part in the battle wasnt really shown. Hoshino's flashbacks include stills of her first meeting with shiroko, which is not something you see until volume F(technically 5th volume in terms of release date, but not actually volume 5 which is its own story after volume F) in the game. The building hoshino was being held in didn't explode in the game.

---- extra notes: Episodes 9 and 12 had scenes referencing Hoshino's senpai, the previous abydos Student council president, Yume. iirc there was only a brief mention of yume in the game story for Volume 1 Ch1&2, so these scenes are either original or pull from Volume 1 Chapter 3 story, which only the JP servers have atm as of now. They arent spoilers though, and they're good additional scenes. I've seen reviews and comments mention lack of info on the girls halo's as a negative, but tbh the game doesnt give any information on them either. its meant to be a mystery, the most we know is halo's are what give the girls their durability. they also vanish while the girl is unconscious(sleeping or knocked out, but its effects dont go away). Halo's can be broken, if the girl dies, which takes an extremely excessive amount of force, so much so that there's only 1 confirmed student death in the story. and that happens before sensei shows up, so there is not a lot of info on that.

there it is

read if you want

I finished Blue Archive, it's a high 6/10 for me. I wouldn't recommend the anime to anyone but I didn't hate it. The later set of episodes were more enjoyable then the first set of episodes.

that is about what i would have scored it i think, if i wasn't familiar with the source

i said in more detail in the "review" but they added stuff that was good to the later episodes that i really appreciated, but would not be recognized as something new and good if you didn't play the game story.

is Mayonaka Punch the obnoxious "kicked out of party" fantasy premise but with youtubers?

the VTuber show has more product placement than just Strong Zero

Sausage Legend is a real game

its funny how the characters dress just like their vtuber models, and that those models have no mouth articulation

extremely generic magic high school show with lots of random CG shots

Garbage, I hope to God you're going to keep watching this death game show with me

10/10

you should all watch Tasuuketsu